The Republican Party is Senate Judiciary CommitteeCongress is calling on the FBI to subpoena all records relating to sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, a day after a federal court in New York finished unsealing more than 200 files on the pair. Supervising authorities are demanding.
“While redacted portions of Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs and Ghislaine Maxwell's Black ledger have been made public in various lawsuits, we have received the full unredacted version from his estate and the FBI. We need it,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who has been spearheading the effort to break the lid. Secrecy surrounding Epstein's wrongdoing is an issue, he said in a statement Wednesday morning.
After Epstein's arrest in early 2019, FBI agents searched his New York City mansion and Little St. James's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His death in a federal prison cell was officially ruled a suicide, including Mr. Epstein's brother. Many Americans question this conclusion.
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On August 12, 2019, FBI agents were seen on Little St. James Island, one of late financier Jeffrey Epstein's properties in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Reuters)
“The American people have a right to know what happened with Jeffrey Epstein and prominent American businessmen and political leaders,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.), the committee's top Republican. Ta. “I fully support and greatly appreciate Senator Blackburn's years of efforts to bring transparency into the Epstein case.”
Documents unsealed Tuesday revealed that Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre had accused former Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson of trafficking her. She also accused a former lover of Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez of attending Mr. Epstein's “orgies.”
Jeffrey Epstein attended the launch of Radar Magazine on May 18, 2005 at Hotel QT. (Photo by Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Mr. Richardson passed away in September. This document was later removed from the records. The more than 200 filings released in the wake of the Giuffre-Maxwell case in 2015 did not include Epstein's much-anticipated “client list.”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has so far delayed a vote on Blackburn's subpoena request.
“I will continue to push for votes on these subpoenas at every possible meeting of the Judiciary Committee until the American people know the full truth and the victims receive the justice they deserve,” Blackburn said Wednesday. Ta.
Other celebrities accused of wrongdoing include Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling mogul who, like Epstein, died in prison awaiting trial on human trafficking charges, and Giuffre, a minor. This includes Britain's Prince Andrew, who was photographed with him.
The long-awaited release of the names comes as Congressional Republicans, led by Tennessee Sen. Blackburn and Rep. Tim Burchett, are demanding an unredacted list of Epstein associates who traveled with him on the private jet. . Some of the flight logs were made public at Maxwell's criminal trial.
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Prince Andrew puts his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre. Ghislaine Maxwell is standing on the right. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
Mr. Blackburn is also fighting to subpoena Mr. Epstein's estate for unredacted flight and communication records.
Last year, Epstein's victims' group sent a letter to the FBI demanding an investigation into the agency's early handling of the investigation. Lawyers for the accusers said they accused Epstein of crimes as early as 1996 to federal investigators.
”[D]Over the years, the FBI has done little to investigate and prosecute Epstein's sex trafficking, despite repeated red flags that he trafficked girls and collected sexual images of children. It appears that this was not the case, and to date, nothing has been done regarding reports of this possibility. [child sex abuse]” the lawyer wrote.
The third case involves sex traffickers allegedly raiding nightclubs catering to underage girls.
Ghislaine Maxwell, founder of the TerraMar project, attends a press conference on ocean issues in the Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations Headquarters, June 25, 2013. Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father in tatters. He was a millionaire who plundered his company's pension fund before dying mysteriously. The second time was with another tycoon, Jeffrey Epstein, who died after being charged with sexually abusing teenage girls. After her life filled with both scandal and extravagance, she is currently in federal prison. (United Nations photo/Rick Bajornas, via AP, File)
A decade later, authorities finally arrested him and obtained a controversial and lenient plea deal in 2008. In 2019, federal prosecutors sought new charges against him after the Miami Herald exposed aspects of the incident that took place behind closed doors.
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Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal sentence for grooming and sex trafficking. She is appealing her conviction.
FOX News' Bradford Betts contributed to this report.
